Twenty-Six in Fifty-Two

Christopher is a freelance designer/typographer living in Toronto and also works with Veer as a Content Editor for their Marketplace and is the resident “type expert”. Try to fit all of that on to a business card! But Christopher contacted me because in a previous post I featured a photo of a print that he made at a Snap & Tumble letterpress workshop, but that’s not the interesting part. Christopher is working on a project through... Read More

Pistilli Realized

I am bursting with excitement over the release of a new font from Veer, Pistilli Roman Eloquent Regular and Eloquent Swash Pistilli Roman Swash (for those lovely little flourishes). Originally created by Herb Lubalin and Lou Dorfsman, Pistilli Roman was a font that was never realized in printing only by hand from what I understand. Now it can all be OURS! I will be buying this font ASAP as I have been tracing it in Illustrator using the below specimens... Read More

Compendium

Air The new typeface from Alejandro Paul is (as always) one of his finest. It’s an elegant script filled with alternates, ornaments and beautiful characters. Compendium It’s available now from Veer and costs $99. Not bad a for a set filled with such beauty. Compendium The images you see here are from the Specimen PDF also available from Veer. If you’re not convinced from the PDF, then just buy it and find out for yourself. FYI, if... Read More